Tag Archives: Turkey

Russia will continue to stay in contact with the European Commission and the European Union countries regarding the feasibility of gas transit through Turkey, RIA Novosti reported citing Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak. Undoubtedly, we will continue contacts with the European Commission and our counterparts from other countries in order …

Global narratives on inequalities and how best to address them have not yet fully connected with the transition and developing economies of Europe, Turkey, and Central Asia. This is partly because of the region’s largely post-socialist heritage, which left relatively equal distributions of income, relatively broad access to social services, …

The Southern Gas Corridor is an excellent example to a new source of energy for Europe, said Vice-President of EU Commission in charge of Energy Union Maros Sefcovic. He made the remarks at the Inter-Parliamentary Meeting of the European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources (EUFORES). The Southern Gas Corridor is one …

Last year Soner Tufan, straining to keep up with demand for guided tours around Istanbul, decided to move to spacious new offices. “Those were the days,” sighs Ali Emrah, his business partner. Despite running one of the top-rated tour-guide companies in Istanbul, they have seen daily inquiries about tours fall from …

Pursuing multi-vector foreign and energy policies, Greece will become an energy hub, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said at a press conference Sept.11, RIA Novosti reported. He said the energy routes of the 21st century will go through Greece. “To a large extent we have succeeded in this thanks to …

Russian sanctions against Europe and Turkey provided a great opportunity for the Georgian agricultural sector which could have replaced, to the best of its ability, the needed supplies of fruit and vegetables to Russia and thus regain its positions on the vast neighboring market. Article by Dr. Andrei Maximov Maximov&Partners LLC; …

Average tariff for exports of Georgian electricity to Turkey has grown by 10.8%, i.e. to 5 Cent on one kilowatt-hour, while electricity prices have dipped by 7% (to 4.8 Cent on kilowatt/hour) on the Turkish market. According to G&T, in Turkey prices declined from the previous year’s low basis. The …

Uniting of the Turkish Stream and TANAP gas pipelines at the Turkish-Greek border is absolutely a normal process, President of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) Gurkan Kumbaroglu told Trend Aug. 16. He said that this process is also important in terms of diversification of energy sources and energy …

Uncorking the Caucasus: Wines from Turkey, Armenia, and Georgia – is a new book by Matthew Horkey and Charine Tan, to be released in September. Based on the authors’ three-month wine travel trip through the Caucasus, this book takes a ground-level approach, which enables the readers to experience an intimate journey …

Eighty seven percent of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway has been constructed in Turkey, Ahmet Arslan, Turkish minister of transport, shipping and communications, said. “The BTK is being constructed on schedule,” the minister said, adding that two bridges are being built over the Kars river. The minister stressed that the BTK …